Serious games are a useful and effective tool for learning, gathering feedback and innovating. That is why serious games are delivered in many of our projects. This is how we help each other innovate.
Some of the games developed in our projects can be viewed or downloaded here.
Warehouse Game
Blokko
Port Constructor
Solve It!
Smooth Sailing
Alloy
Supply Chain Game
Teaser game Cool Connection
Synchromania
Trucks & Barges
City Logistics Game
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Supply Chain Game
The supply chain game is a "board game" for (basically) one player whose task is to manage the supply chain logistics as well as possible. In doing so, she must decide how many materials to buy, which products to assemble from those materials, and where to send these products.
An electronic version of this board game has been made. The electronic version automatically detects how much stock is in each location. Based on that, points are tracked. But based on that information, the player can also be advised, based on artificial intelligence (Deep Reinforcement Learning), what the best decisions to make are. The whole thing is thus an illustration of how AI can be applied in supply chain logistics practice.
Teasergame Cool Connection
The Cool Connection is a globally played serious game that takes you through all the dilemmas that supply chain finance has to deal with. In this teaser game, you will experience the power of well-thought-out cooperation and strategy, supported by tactical skills and knowledge. Create the right mindset by playing the Cool Connection teaser game.
For whom: Logistics market participants, supply chain finance specialists, education, government
Number of players: From 1 person
Synchromania
Using the Synchromania game, you can experience for yourself the advantages and disadvantages of synchromodal transport by stepping into the shoes of a transport planner of a multimodal operator. As a planner, your goal is to process customer orders in the best possible way, paying attention to costs, sustainability and customer satisfaction. The game was developed by TNO in cooperation with ECT and Danser and is used in workshops with logistics parties and as a teaching tool in education.
For whom: Logistics market players, education, government
Number of players: 6 to 16 players
Trucks & Barges
Trucks & Barges is available online serious game that gives (future) logistics planners a better understanding of intermodal planning issues, the benefits and challenges and planning ahead and how decisions are made. Because the game can be played at different levels, it can be used in the continuous learning line from secondary education to university in both initial and post-experience education and in corporate training. The game has a game management system where a game master can create a specific game room with scenarios for his own group of participants. The game also includes an algorithm creator to add own scenarios.- For whom: (future) logistics planners and employees, transport and logistics students.
City Logistics Game
In practice, getting a city hub into operation has particular challenges in getting all stakeholders on board. Different stakeholders have different interests and do not always monitor the impact of their individual actions on the overall picture of distributions in the city. This city logistics game is designed to demonstrate these difficulties. It is designed as a tool to understand the objectives and behaviour of different stakeholders in city logistics. It is also designed to experience the importance of communication between stakeholders, experience decision-making problems in transport operations and learn how to intervene when things go wrong.
For whom: Municipalities, logistics service providers, urban distribution centres, shippers, transport and logistics students
Number of players: 6 players
Service Supply Chain Game
The Service Supply Chain Game is a serious game focused on cooperation and innovation in service logistics chains. The Service Supply Chain Game is serious game in the form of a board game. Players manage the logistics chain and have to provide assets with spare parts on time. In this way, the game lets players experience both the importance of cooperation in service supply chains and innovative techniques to optimise the chain. The Service Supply Chain Game is intended for supply chain professionals, students and teachers. The Service Supply Chain Game was developed with the support of Top Sector Logistics.
For whom: anyone who plays a role in the service logistics chain, knowledge institutions and stakeholders
Number of players: 4 to 8 players per table
Warehouse Game
Based on a case, participants have to come up with a design proposal for a warehouse. In a warehouse, where do you place the goods and why? What is the best (cheapest) solution for the given problem? Be challenged and gain insight in this new serious game.
For whom: Employees of logistics service providers, but not directly in the logistics operation, HBO and MBO students and teachers, those interested in logistics issues
Number of players: 2 to 30 players
Port Constructor
Which functionalities should be developed in the port and how do you find the right balance between them? Experience with your own eyes the impact of your chosen functionalities and go for maximum profit, optimal sustainability and a healthy community.
For whom: anyone dealing with logistics (port) issues
Number of players: Can be played both individually (unaccompanied) and in groups (accompanied)
Smooth Sailing
The amount of freight transport in the Netherlands continues to grow. This requires, among other things, efficient use of the waterways and hence efficient use of the locks on these routes. The current rotation principle (order in which ships enter the lock) follows the 'first come, first served' principle. For skippers and logistics parties, this causes unreliability in the logistics chain. The game Smooth Sailing gives players insight into the advantages and disadvantages of the current lock rotation principle.
For whom: Logistics market players and government
Number of players: 5 teams of 1 or 2 players
Alloy
More information? Contact Liselot Rijstenbil at TNO.
MasterShipper
Play the digital game MasterShipper and experience synchromodal transport from a shipper's perspective. By experiencing the impact of choices under different circumstances, players become aware of the advantages and disadvantages of giving more freedom to the logistics service provider. MasterShipper is used in discussions between logistics service providers and shippers to explore how synchromodal transport and the use of multimodal networks can best be applied to meet the needs of shippers and what actions are needed to realise this in practice.
For whom: Logistics market participants and education
Number of players: Up to 10 teams of 2 players
Solve It!
Experience possible advantages and disadvantages of a more centralised versus a more decentralised and self-organising logistics structure. The board game Solve it! shows the impact of choices by creating, evaluating and comparing two different organisational structures.Board game about self-organising logistics.
For whom: Logistics market players and government
Number of players: 8 to 12 players (4 teams)
Innovating can be taught
'Innovate you can learn' is a role-playing game in which participants experience what is asked of you if you participate in innovation in your transport or logistics company. The board game centres on the case that the company wants to introduce a 'training coach' as an innovation. This training coach helps the company with people-oriented management, making it easier for employees to get involved in innovation and change. Several 'bottlenecks' come up in the game. Solving them requires cooperation, whereby you get an eye for what is going on in other departments.
For whom: Middle management and employees within a company
Number of players: 3 to 6 players
You’ve got freight
Players of You've Got Freight dive into the role of a freight forwarder transporting containers from port to hinterland. Players get a personal experience of the challenges posed by multimodality and synchromodality. The biggest challenge in this is finding the right balance: fighting for individual gains versus looking for joint benefits. Players thus become aware of the essence of cooperation, which is needed to make synchromodality a success.
The game is used in education in lesson programmes and for research. In the public sector for brainstorming sessions on policy and creating awareness on the subject. In the transport sector for team building and innovation sessions for synchromodality. Since early 2021, this game has also been available in a digital version.
Introduction to Logistics
Young people use their mobile phones the most to gather information. 21CC developed the app 'Rondje Logistiek' on behalf of Top Sector Logistics with the aim of:
Excite pupils and students for logistics as a future field of work.
Increase the inflow to logistics courses.
Support companies in finding, enthusing and training new employees.
Support municipalities and regions in labour market participation projects.
The current app was developed in cooperation with KennisDC Logistiek and Port of Moerdijk and consists of various games, videos, mini-modules and a competition element, is infinitely expandable, further developable and duplicable to different (logistics) environments.
The Blue Connection
Bike manufacturer Storm Wind Bike has fallen on hard times. The e-bike supplier is making losses and is under intense pressure from stakeholders to transform to a circular business model. But how? What decisions can be made by the four different managers of this company? How do you properly align the plans of procurement, sales, finance and supply chain management? How manage cross-departmental trade offs ? And what role does long-term strategy play in getting all players on the same page? The Blue Connection: a business simulation focusing on the transformation to a circular business model. From the makers of The Fresh Connection.
For whom: Employees of companies and students
